Some friends of ours have an M3 Coupe about six months old. They've got two scrotes on CCTV walking up to it on their drive, pulling a fob out of their pocket, opening the doors and having a good rummage round nicking a laptop and some other stuff that was in the boot. The gate was across so I'm guessing that's why they didn't nick the car but I can't imagine they're sleeping well at the moment.

Its probably as easy as it ever was, even without the tech solution.
All you need is a bent bugger in the service bay of any garage.
And of course, pretty much all new cars go through there don't they?

I reckon having a disklok would put crooks off enough to go find another one that will be easier to take.
After all, these type of crooks dont want to be angle grinding a lock off....they just want a nice clean getaway.

During my VAG days, we used to disable the ECUs via the REVO SPS when parked up. This prevented the car being started at all, it's a shame REVO don't tune BMW. You've all got to realise, we've got at least £15k's worth (in the most part) of asset sitting there, unsecured mostly, with wheels on it ready for someone to take it away. It's much easier to steal a car than raid a house most often so why not take the easy route, for a good return on 'resale' at that. It makes me thankful at least that we have a big gate and garage at our new home.

Spoke to a few alarm installers recently and kind of hit a brick wall.

The latest installer replied

"any upgraded system has to pass through the vehicles can bus system and can be deactivated through the obd port in exactly the same way as the OEM set up. You can fit an aftermarket immobiliser to isolate the starter motor only but thieves are aware of this and vehicles are easily push started".